Every year mom would make a bunch of sugar cookies and gingerbread men. Well rather, she made the dough and we cut it out and decorated it. I think she had the good end of the deal--make the dough and eat the cookies! Dad liked to help decorate the cookies, especially the gingerbread men, as I remember it. This recipe comes fromfrom the Scovil Bakery in Nauvoo, Illinois.
1 cup sugar
1 cup molasses
3/4 cup oil or lard
1/2 cup hot water
2 eggs
1 teaspoon soda
1 heaping teaspoon ginger
1 teaspoon cinnamon
1/2 teaspoon salt
2 cups whole wheat flour
4 cups white flour
Combine, sugar, molasses, and oil. Add hot water, measuring it in same cup as molasses so that you get all molasses out of cup.
Add eggs, then beat.
Sift together remaining ingredients then stir into wet ingredients.
Divide dough in two onto plastic wrap. Form into discs and wrap. Refrigerate dough for 1 hour (some say 3 hours minimum), then roll out onto floured surface to 1/4" and cut with cookie cutters.
Place on lightly greased cookie sheet and bake for 10 minutes at 350° F (180° C).
Notes:
Many other recipes use more spices. A few of them look more like this: 1 T ground ginger, 1 T cinnamon, 1/2 t allspice, 1/2 t cloves
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